Android (2.0 and above): It's a "pre-alpha build," but Firefox Mobile, a.k.a. Fennec, is worth testing out on newer Android phones. It's a pretty neat browser with a lot of potential, as shown in our screen captures.

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Despite its labeling and the many heedings from Mozilla, I found that most everything on Fennec was working on my Nexus One—everything except syncing bookmarks and tabs from my desktop Firefox browser to Fennec using Mozilla Weave. Update: The solution for getting Weave syncing on this alpha build is to head to mozillalabs.com/weave in Fennec itself, then click the "Experimental Version" link that's to the right inside the big "Download Now" green bar.

On matters of speed and rendering, Fennec has a ways to go to match up with either mobile Safari or Opera Mini. The Firefox rendering engine hardly has a problem with layout or web standards, mind you, but right now the page rendering speed falls behind, even on a Wi-Fi connection to a very fast cable modem. You're also restricted to double-tapping on a relevant page portion to zoom to its level. No pinch-to-zoom in this build, nor even the +/- buttons available on the stock Android browser. So if Firefox doesn't do a good job guessing at the zoom level you want, some pages get a might bit squint-y.

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Aside from those alpha concerns, Fennec is very impressive, overall. Our screenshot gallery below shows off some of its more interesting features. The address bar does a neat job of integrating URL entry and search, and "Search Integrators" do a neat job of offering up specific site searches—Twitter, Amazon, YouTube, etc.—by clicking their icons below the main search area. Hiding the back/forward buttons and other controls on the left and right edges makes sense for small screens, the tabbed browsing offers both thumbnails and easy switching, and the add-ons installation and gallery work just like you'd expect from a tiny Firefox. Take a gander. (Want to see all the screens on one page? This version is your ticket.)

One more neat feature that you might have seen in the screenshots: you can save any page you're browsing to a PDF file. That's mighty helpful for saving reading you don't want to do on a tiny screen for later. Then again, isn't that what Weave syncing should be helpful for?

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Fennec for Android is a free download, and requires Android 2.0 or above. Droid, Nexus One, and other fancy-schmancy Android users, tell us what you think of Firefox Mobile in the comments.